Johnny Manziel sued for $1M, accused of breaking bar-back's nose

Former Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel faces a $1 million
lawsuit, accused of breaking the nose of a bartending assistant at a
private party. Photo via Twitter

Embattled former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel
is being sued for up to $1 million in damages by a "bar-back"
bartending assistant after allegedly breaking the man's nose on Sept. 6.

Eric Newton filed a lawsuit against Manziel in Travis County, Texas, on Monday, stemming from an incident at a private party.

Newton claims Manziel requested that he make drinks and he said he told the former Heisman Trophy
winner that he wasn't allowed to do so. Newton and another customer
were discussing Manziel later and somebody in Manziel's group relayed
the comments on to the one-time Cleveland Browns' quarterback.

Manziel was irate after hearing the comments
and allegedly charged at Newton and punched him in the face, breaking
Newton's nose. Manziel reportedly fled through a back exit.

Manziel is due in court on Thursday in Dallas for a hearing in the domestic assault case involving former girlfriend Colleen Crowley.

Prosecutors reached a tentative deal to dismiss the case earlier this month. Manziel was accused of hitting Crowley in January.

Before the January incident, Manziel was
pulled over for fighting with Crowley in Oct. 2015. He was not charged
but admitted to having alcoholic drinks before the incident.

Since his indictment, Manziel was released by
the Browns on March 16. A first-round pick of the Browns in 2014,
Manziel appeared in 15 games and completed 147 of 258 passes for 1,675
yards and seven touchdowns.

In his brief time with the Browns, Manziel
had his work ethic described as "a 100 percent joke" by an anonymous
teammate and also spent two months in rehab following his rookie season.
Last November, he was demoted to third-string quarterback after a video
surfaced on the internet of him partying.

Manziel rose to prominence by being the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy in 2012 with Texas A&M.

Before being named the Aggies' starting
quarterback, Manziel was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct,
failure to identify and possession of a fictitious driver's license from
a late-night in College Station, Texas on June 29, 2012. In July 2013,
he pled guilty to failure to identify and had the other two charges
dismissed.

Following his freshman season, he was kicked
out of the Manning Passing Academy for allegedly oversleeping and was
ejected from of a fraternity party at the University of Texas.

In Aug. 2013, the NCAA investigated whether
Manziel accepted payments from signing autographs. No evidence was found
that Manziel took money but he reached an agreement to sit out the
first half of Texas A&M's season opener.